Re: Orphaned Packages in rawhide (2018-08-27)

Excerpts from Till Maas's message of 2018-08-28 00:03 +02:00:
What does it mean for a package to be owned by orphan while it still has
other admins who are real people?
Is this some kind of edge case where the package was owned by
a maintainer who was inactive, and thus their packages got "orphaned",
even though there are still other maintainers? Is there any record where
we can see when or why these changes were made?

Hi,
FESCo voted yesterday to "send info to all co-maintainers and
fedora-devel, [...] after a week reassign to one co-maintainer, if no
co-maintainers, retire". The text in Till's mail was not adjusted to
reflect this. Nevertheless, the plan is to do what was voted.
The reason why we don't just reassign all packages to co-maintainers
right now is that often it's not clear which if any of the other
maintainers are active. So in this first round we ask people to
take ownership explicitly, and will do the automatic procedure for
the rest.